Pirates of Silicon Valley Page #7

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I don't understand. How does a computer

handle the mouse-cursor display?

Hardware's got nothing to do

with the mouse.

- It's all in the software.

- Enough.

Sorry. Steve.

There's no point in torturing our guests...

...with what they can't have.

You're vulnerable in spreadsheets.

you know. Steve.

We can help you.

Ninety hours a week. Like the T-shirt?

I'm gonna give it to my people.

Some of them work even more

than 90 hours a week.

We have Multiplan running on

dozens of different platforms.

No one can match us.

You can't just have employees anymore.

It's great.

No. they gotta be into a crusade.

It's like art. science. religion.

all rolled into one.

We have multi-tool interface.

It can be redesigned for the Mac.

Redesigned. Redesigned.

We're artists here.

A place where raw sand

comes in one end...

...and goes out the other. Silicon art.

You know. IBM. they're gonna want

all our stuff.

IBM?

IBM. they're history.

I mean. they're 1950s. they're ice America.

a bloated enemy in a crumbling castle.

- And we're storming it.

- I know IBM is the enemy. Steve.

But we can help you.

You don't have to worry about IBM.

Yeah?

So why you even working with them?

I'd much rather work with you.

We're in.

- We're doing work for Apple.

- You're kidding me.

They're sending us three prototypes

of the computer we just saw.

- The Macintosh.

- For God sakes.

There's a pirate flag flying above our heads.

and he's giving us the crown jewel?

Who the hell's the pirate here?

He sees what he believes.

not the other way around.

We're not his worst problem.

If he's not careful.

he's gonna wreck the place.

- Macintosh! Macintosh!

- Macintosh rules!

- Apple ll's the best!

- Mac's the best!

Even when I got my memory back,

it was never the same for me.

I couldn't believe

how it had all changed.

Apple was tearing itself to pieces.

Steve had turned it into two camps:

His new Macintosh group

against everyone else in the company.

Steve. what the hell is this?

It's like a family. Things get messy.

I don't understand this.

You got the Mac people

against the Apple ll people?

- They're beating each other up.

- Amazing. huh?

People wanna be shaped. molded.

But if you asked any of them.

any of them. they'd deny it.

I don't wanna shape anybody. Steve.

This isn't fun anymore.

Maybe fun is just fragments of existence

with better packaging.

I don't make jokes anymore.

I told you a long time ago. I like jokes.

Steve! Goodbye. I'm quitting Apple.

- Well. that's a joke. right?

- No. I'm going back to college.

Woz. Hey. what are you doing?

I don't think it's such a good idea.

All I'm doing now is being a brake pedal

for you as you're heading for the wall.

Woz!

- I ask you for brilliance?

- Steve.

I've asked you for genius.

and you're giving me this?

Steve. please.

Oh. no. Steve. not again.

It's 3 a.m.. okay? I don't have the energy

to defend an unfinished design.

That's because there's nothing to defend.

I want beauty. not incompetence.

Are you listening to me?

- Are you listening--?

- Yes. I'm listening!

I am so sick of your abusiveness.

That's all you know.

Tearing people down. throwing tantrums.

- You miserable son of a b*tch.

- What are you doing? Come on. back off.

I know we've been in a battle...

...and like all battles.

we've had our casualties along the way.

But today's about celebrating.

The Macintosh.

It's time for a christening...

...of our little Macintosh.

Our baby.

- Congratulations.

- Congratulations.

Real artists ship.

In this company. in Apple.

In the entire business...

...we. you. the Macintosh team.

are the only true artists.

You can forget Apple, forget Lisa.

It's only us. The Macintosh team.

We have been chosen to seize history.

But first. carpe diem. seize the day.

It's your time to party, people.

Hey. John.

You hear what I heard in there?

- HeY. man. what'd you say about Steve?

- I'm sick of his crap.

- What'd you say. man?

- You heard me.

You wanna talk like that about Steve?

You wanna talk like that about the guy

who feeds you, man?

- The guy who feeds you?

- Come on. Break it up.

Come on.

- HeY. hey. guys.

- Somebody pull him off.

- Never like this at Pepsi-Cola.

- Knock it off.

You wanna sell sugar water

the rest of your life?

Steve. I'm worried.

Yeah?

Yeah. about what's happening.

All the. you know. them versus us stuff.

Macintosh versus Apple ll.

You don't understand. John.

People need a cause.

We missed Vietnam. This is our Vietnam.

- It's tearing the company apart.

- Creation is messy.

You want genius. you get madness.

Two sides of the same coin.

You knew that when I brought you in.

Steve. if you can't trust me.

then God help you.

I didn't mention anything

about trust. John.

There's another problem.

- It's Arlene and the baby.

- That's my business.

No. not anymore.

TIME magazine is doing another story.

You don't need the bad press.

Neither do we.

- Child's not mine.

- Steve. come on. You took a paternity test.

She is yours.

It's right there in the results.

- Paternity tests are a joke.

- She's asking for $20,000.

- Total. nothing more.

- Blackmail.

Steve. you can afford the money.

Give her what she's asking for.

- You should give her more.

- It's not about the damn money.

Well. what is it, then?

I don't know.

Mommy. there's a man here.

It's been what. a year?

- Yeah. I've been busy.

- I'm sure.

- Why'd you come?

- I don't know.

She's looking really good.

You should have come to see her.

- You could have brought her by.

- Oh. Steve.

Here.

Thank you.

Thank you. Lisa.

- Steve Jobs is killing us. Ballmer!

- Yeah?

This stuff is crummy. It's totally crummy.

- Windows was supposed to ship last year.

- We're ready for you.

Why do I have to do this?

I have work. This is stupid.

It's good PR.

It's for The Wall Street Journal.

- I don't need PR.

- Can you stand a little to the left?

The hole in that sweater of your shirt.

Turn all the way to the right.

What am I. a trained seal?

- If Apple can do this. why can't we?

- What do you want us to do?

- Whatever you have to.

- Meaning what. Bill?

Meaning ship Windows

before the snow falls.

- This is Seattle. It doesn't snow here.

- Whatever. Steve.

Mr. Gates. I think you should

take off your sweater...

...because it clashes

with the background.

The green and blue.

It's just not in these days.

It's not in at all.

Sweat stains. This is awful.

- I'd like to get back to work--

- I know. we're almost ready.

Okay. and three. two. one.

Smile. please.

Urgent. Mr. Gates.

Thank you. What's next?

Steve Jobs.

Mr. Jobs demands you be

in his office tonight.

He's getting paranoid

over what we're doing.

Maybe he should be.

Not at the pace you're going.

I think I had a date tonight with Ann.

- I thought she was away on business.

- She is.

Then how can you have a date?

Well. I go to a movie here. and then

she goes to the same movie in Denver...

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